AutoLISP - Programming language

AutoLISP is a programming language created in 1986 by David Betz.

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AutoLISP is a dialect of the LISP programming language built specifically for use with the full version of AutoCAD and its derivatives, which include AutoCAD Map 3D, AutoCAD Architecture and AutoCAD Mechanical. Neither the application programming interface nor the interpreter to execute AutoLISP code are included in the AutoCAD LT product line.. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: programming language, lisp, cad
Early development of AutoLISP happened in Autodesk and Basis Software
Explore AutoLISP snippets on Rosetta Code
AutoLISP on HOPL
AutoLISP appears in the TIOBE Index
See also: (18 related languages) AUTOCAD, VBA, Lisp, Interlisp, Lisp Machine Lisp, Scheme, Common Lisp, T, Emacs Lisp, ISLISP, OpenLisp, PicoLisp, EuLisp, NewLisp, Racket, Clojure, Arc, LFE

Example from hello-world:

(alert "Hello World")

Example from Wikipedia:

1 (defun c:pointlabel ( / pnt )
 2     (if (setq pnt (getpoint "\nSpecify point: "))
 3         (progn
 4             (entmake
 5                 (list
 6                    '(0 . "POINT")
 7                     (cons 10 (trans pnt 1 0))
 8                 )
 9             )
10             (entmake
11                 (list
12                    '(0 . "TEXT")
13                     (cons 10 (trans (cons (+ (car pnt) 0.6) (cdr pnt)) 1 0))
14                     (cons 40 (getvar 'textsize))
15                     (cons  1 (strcat "X:" (rtos (car pnt)) " Y:" (rtos (cadr pnt))))
16                 )
17             )
18         )
19     )
20     (princ)
21 )

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"